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"The stor to have one?"

The captain looked critically in the direction towards which they were

sailing

"Dirty weather co, I think"

"Yes, I see," said Cardo; "I had not noticed it before, though How

inky black the sky is over there! And the sea as black, and that white

streak on the line of the horizon!"

"We shall have a bit of a toss," said the captain "Couldn't expect to

get to Australia on a mill pond"

"Mill pond do you call the swells we have had the last few days?"

"Al hi soain into a deep reverie Yes, it looked black

before them! "But I have alished to see a storm at sea, and if I

only had Valmai with me, I should be joyous and exultant; but instead

of that, I a of soh I'ht, and I eat like a horse"

"Come, Mr Wynne," said one of the ladies, who had marked his serious

looks, "we must really call you to account! You have fallen into a

brown study again You must let us cheer you up We can't have the

very life of the party losing his spirits Now if you had left your

wife at home, as Mr Dawson has!"

"I have done that," said Cardo, "but I am not at all likely to fall

into low spirits I have never in my life knohat that means; but a

man, more especially a ht sometimes"